RUSSELL BELK, York University

Russell Belk is York University Distinguished Research Professor and Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. His areas of academic specialization include the meanings of possessions, collecting, sharing, gift-giving, extended self, and materialism. His work tends to be cultural, qualitative, and visual. He has more than 550 publications, a number of awards, and honorary professorships on four continents. In 2013 he co-wrote or co-edited Qualitative Consumer and Marketing Research (Sage), Consumer Culture Theory (Emerald), The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption, and The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption. In 2014 Sage published ten volumes of his prior work in their Legends in Consumer Behavior series.

Title of Talk: “Creating and publishing a conceptual paper”

“Things Owning Things” (under review for the special issue of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research on sharing and ownership)